The Ministry of Health ( my, ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန, ; abbreviated MOH) is a national government-run ministry administering health affairs and

health care Health care or healthcare is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health profe ...

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

, including all of the medical schools. In 2016, President Htin Kyaw dissolved the

Ministry of Sports (Myanmar) The Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs ( my, အားကစားနှင့် လူငယ်ရေးရာ ဝန်ကြီးဌာန; MOSYA) administers Myanma sports and youth affairs. The ministry was formed in 1996 as Ministry ...

and organized it under the Ministry of Health. On 25 May 2016, it was renamed to

Ministry of Health and Sports (Myanmar) Ministry of Health and Sports regroups the two following ministries: Ministry of Health and Ministry of Sports.In 2016, President Htin Kyaw dissolved the Ministry of Sports (Myanmar) and organized it under the Ministry of Health.On 25 May 2016, ...

. On 1 August 2021, the SAC reconstituted the Ministry of Health and Sports as Ministry of Health and Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs.

Departments

The Ministry of Health is divided into departments, each headed by a Director-General. * Department of Public Health * Department of Medical Services * Department of Health Professional Resources Development and Management * Department of Medical Research * Department of Traditional Medicine * Department of Food and Drug Administration * Department of Sports and Physical Education Department of Health Professional Resources Development and Management is controlling body of following universities in 2014. *

University of Medicine 1, Yangon The University of Medicine 1, Yangon ( my, ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ်(၁) ရန်ကုန် ; formerly the Institute of Medicine 1), located in Yangon, it is the oldest medical school in Myanmar. The university offers M.B., B.S. ( ...

University of Medicine 2, Yangon The University of Medicine 2, Yangon ( my, ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ်(၂) ရန်ကုန် ; formerly, Institute of Medicine 2) is a university of medicine, located in North Okkalapa, Yangon, Myanmar. The university offers M.B., ...

University of Medicine, Mandalay The University of Medicine, Mandalay ( my, ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ် (မန္တလေး), ; formerly Institute of Medicine, Mandalay), located in Mandalay is one of five medical universities in Myanmar. The university offers Bachelo ...

University of Medicine, Magway The University of Medicine, Magway ( my, ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ် (မကွေး), ) located in Magway, is one of five universities of medicine in Myanmar. The university offers an M.B., B.S. degree program, and master's degree pr ...

University of Medicine, Taunggyi The University of Medicine, Taunggyi ( my, ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ် (တောင်ကြီး), ) located in Taunggyi, Shan State is one of the universities of medicine in Myanmar. Founded in 2015, the university offers an Bachelo ...

University of Dental Medicine, Yangon ) , established = , location = Thingangyun 11071, Yangon Yangon Division, Myanmar , coor = , type = public , staff = , rector = Shwe Toe, Dr (2015 Feb - Present) , students = , undergrad = , postgrad = , website= , affiliations = Ministry o ...

University of Dental Medicine, Mandalay ) , established = , location = 62nd Street, Chanmyathazi, Mandalay, Myanmar , coordinates = , type = Public , administrative_staff = 196/263 , rector = Ko Ko (academic) , prorector ...

* University of Public Health, Yangon *

University of Community Health, Magway The University of Community Health, Magway (UCH) ( my, အခြေခံ ကျန်းမာရေး တက္ကသိုလ် (မကွေး), ) is a Community Health University under the Ministry of Health (Myanmar), and located in M ...

University of Nursing, Yangon The University of Nursing, Yangon ( my, သူနာပြု တက္ကသိုလ် (ရန်ကုန်) ; formerly The Institute of Nursing, Yangon) is a nursing university, located in Lanmadaw Township, Yangon, Myanmar. It is one of th ...

* University of Nursing, Mandalay *

University of Medical Technology, Yangon The University of Medical Technology, Yangon ( my, ဆေးဘက်‌ဆိုင်ရာ နည်းပညာ တက္ကသိုလ် (ရန်ကုန်) ; formerly, the Institute of Paramedical Science, Yangon) is one of three unive ...

University of Medical Technology, Mandalay The University of Medical Technology, Mandalay ( my, ဆေးဘက်‌ဆိုင်ရာ နည်းပညာ တက္ကသိုလ် (မန္တလေး), ; formerly, the Institute of Paramedical Science, Mandalay), located in Pat ...

University of Pharmacy, Yangon The University of Pharmacy, Yangon ( my, ဆေးဝါး တက္ကသိုလ် (ရန်ကုန်) ), located in North Okkalapa, Yangon, is one of two pharmacy schools in Myanmar. The university offers Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm) ...

University of Pharmacy, Mandalay The University of Pharmacy, Mandalay ( my, ဆေးဝါး တက္ကသိုလ် (မန္တလေး), ), located in Mandalay, is one of two pharmacy schools in Myanmar. The university offers a Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm.) degree wh ...

University of Traditional Medicine,Mandalay The University of Traditional Medicine, Mandalay (UTM), in Aungmyethazan, Mandalay, is a public university of Burmese traditional medicine. The Ministry of Health and Sports administered university under the department of traditional medicine o ...

List of heads

Pre–Independence

* Hla Min (1943–45) * Ba Gyan (1945–47)

AFPFL Government

Aung Zan Wai Aung Zan Wai ( my, အောင်ဇံဝေ; 19 November 1893 – 29 December 1984) was an Arakanese politician and one of the most important negotiators and leaders of the historical Panglong Conference in 1947. The signing of Panglong Agreeme ...

* Khin Maung Lat * Sein Ban, Dr * Ba Saw * Hla Min

Caretaker Government

Tun Tin Thura U Tun Tin ( my, ထွန်းတင်, ; 2 October 1920 – 1 May 2020) was a Burmese politician who served as Prime Minister of Burma from 1988 to 1990. Biography He was born in Myitkyina in October 1920. He graduated with a bachelor ...

(1958–60)

Pyidaungsu Party Government

* Sultan Mahmud (1960–62)

Revolutionary Council Government

Than Pe ''Than'' is a grammatical particle analyzed as both a conjunction and a preposition in the English language. It introduces a comparison and is associated with comparatives and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it measures t ...

, Commodore (1962) * Hla Han, Col. (1964–74)

Burma Socialist Programme Party The Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP), ; abbreviated , was Burma's ruling party from 1962 to 1988 and sole legal party from 1964 to 1988. Party chairman Ne Win overthrew the country's democratically elected government in a coup d'éta ...
Government

* Hla Han, Col. (1974) * Kyi Maung (1974–78) * Win Maung (1978–81) * Tun Wai (1981–88)

State Law and Order Restoration Council Government

* Pe Thein, Col. (1988–93) * Than Nyunt, Vice-Adm. (1993–96) * Saw Tun (1996–97)

State Peace and Development Council The State Peace and Development Council ( my, နိုင်ငံတော် အေးချမ်းသာယာရေး နှင့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေး ကောင်စီ ; abbreviated SPDC or , ) was the offi ...
Government

* Kat Sein, Maj-Gen. (November 1997–November 2003) * Kyaw Myint, Dr. (November 2003–March 2011)

Thein Sein Thein Sein ( my, သိန်းစိန်; IPA: ; born 20 April 1944) is a Burmese politician and retired general in the Myanmar Army who served as the eighth President of Myanmar from 2011 to 2016. He previously served as Prime Minister ...
's Government

Pe Thet Khin Pe Thet Khin ( my, ဖေသက်ခင်) was the Ministry of Health (Burma), Minister for Health of Myanmar (Burma), and a practicing paediatrician. He previously served as Professor of Child Health in University of Medicine, Mandalay. Later ...

, Dr. (March 2011 – July 2014) * Than Aung, Dr. (August 2014 – 30 March 2016)

Htin Kyaw Htin Kyaw ( my, ထင်ကျော်, or ; born 20 July 1946) is a Burmese politician, writer and scholar who served as the ninth president of Myanmar from 30 March 2016 to 21 March 2018. He was the first elected president to hold the off ...
's Government

Myint Htwe Myint Htwe ( my, မြင့်ထွေး ; born 24 September 1948) is a Burmese politician, public health physician, and former Minister for Health and Sports of Myanmar . Early life and education Myint Htwe was born on 24 September 1948 ...

, Dr. (30 March 2016 - 2018)

Win Myint Win Myint ( ; born 8 November 1951) is a Burmese politician who served as the tenth president of Myanmar from 2018 to 2021. He was removed from office in the 2021 Burmese coup d'état. He was the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Myan ...
's Government

, Dr. (2018- 1 February 2021)

Min Aung Hlaing Min Aung Hlaing ( my, မင်းအောင်လှိုင် abbreviated: MAL ; born 3 July 1956) also known as Alaungsithu is a Burmese politician and army general who has ruled Myanmar as the chairman of the State Administration Coun ...
Military 's Government

Thet Khaing Win- Dr. Thet Oo Maung may refer to: * Thet people, a Burmese people from Myanmar * Eth, a letter (Ð, ð) * River Thet, a river in Norfolk, England {{Disambiguation ...

(1 February 2021 – present)

References

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Health Health, according to the World Health Organization, is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity".World Health Organization. (2006)''Constitution of the World Health Organiza ...

Medical and health organisations based in Myanmar

Ministries established in 1947 1974 establishments in Burma

Departments

List of heads

Pre–Independence

AFPFL Government

Caretaker Government

Pyidaungsu Party Government

Revolutionary Council Government

Burma Socialist Programme Party The Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP), ; abbreviated , was Burma's ruling party from 1962 to 1988 and sole legal party from 1964 to 1988. Party chairman Ne Win overthrew the country's democratically elected government in a coup d'éta ... Government

State Law and Order Restoration Council Government

State Peace and Development Council The State Peace and Development Council ( my, နိုင်ငံတော် အေးချမ်းသာယာရေး နှင့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေး ကောင်စီ ; abbreviated SPDC or , ) was the offi ... Government

Thein Sein Thein Sein ( my, သိန်းစိန်; IPA: ; born 20 April 1944) is a Burmese politician and retired general in the Myanmar Army who served as the eighth President of Myanmar from 2011 to 2016. He previously served as Prime Minister ... 's Government

Htin Kyaw Htin Kyaw ( my, ထင်ကျော်, or ; born 20 July 1946) is a Burmese politician, writer and scholar who served as the ninth president of Myanmar from 30 March 2016 to 21 March 2018. He was the first elected president to hold the off ... 's Government

Win Myint Win Myint ( ; born 8 November 1951) is a Burmese politician who served as the tenth president of Myanmar from 2018 to 2021. He was removed from office in the 2021 Burmese coup d'état. He was the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Myan ... 's Government

Min Aung Hlaing Min Aung Hlaing ( my, မင်းအောင်လှိုင် abbreviated: MAL ; born 3 July 1956) also known as Alaungsithu is a Burmese politician and army general who has ruled Myanmar as the chairman of the State Administration Coun ... Military 's Government